Extra Credit

Part One;
I chose the hand crank cassette player.

Part Two:
A case study for evangelists

Part Three:
This technology is intended to help spread the work of missionaries.  It is has the intention of any other cassette player but since the places you are traveling to do not have electricity, you have to have a technology that can work without it.  The hand crank allows you to travel to these countries and still use sophisticated technology that we use in America.  The missionaries use the hand crank cassette players to spread their gospel to indigenous peoples.  The hand crank cassette players were made by the missionaries.  They took ordinary cassette players apart and replaced the electrical devices with manual ones.  This allowed for the use of advanced technology in places that were not as advanced.  This technology worked very well.  Due to the fact that the native people did not live in developed areas, they had never seen a cassette player before.  They were so fascinated by it that they became desperate to have one.  They wanted one so bad, and they did not care what tapes came with it.  They simply wanted to have the technology.  One scene in the movie shows a boy being interviewed.  He tells the director how much he and his family love it when the missionaries come and bring them free stuff.  They have no idea what the cassette player is or the message they hear, but it is exciting and fun for them to get something new.  Most of these people are poor, and any new presents will excite them and invoke them to play around with it.   This allowed for great success for the missionaries.  They were able to spread their word of god somewhat unknowingly to the people.  Since the missionaries brought the cassette players and tapes, and there was no such things like it in their cultures, the people were forced to listen to the gospel preachings.  People wanted to experience the communication technology so bad they were willing to take whatever they were given.  The missionaries would come and people would surround them.  The new technologies were unknown to the native people and that made them desirable.  It did not matter what the message was the missionaries were sending, all the native people cared about was the medium.  This allowed the missionaries to succeed very well.  People would listen to the recordings frequently because it was so new and exciting.  Then the people started to remember and learn from the gospel messages.  This in turn allowed for the missionaries to convert some cultures.  Evangelists can learn a lot from this case.  If you can expose people to something new and exciting, they will be much more receptive of it.  Providing a lower developed area with a technology that they have never seen before will produce great outcomes.  The people living in this community will want to experience what you provide them so bad, and they will not care what you are telling them.  While this may seem unproductive it ends up working out beneficially.  While the native people experience over and over again what you provide out of desperation, they will begin to memorize and remember the message.  Some will learn to understand the message and believe in it.  This is an example of cultural imperialism.  The missionaries take a part of their culture, the communication technology, and bring it to another culture.  This culture, whether by force or volunteer take on this new technology.  When they agree to take on this new technology they are eventually being converted to Christianity through the messages sent by the technology.  This is the best case scenario for the evangelists, and it is very possible for all of you to achieve this.